Lisa Ling

Lisa Ling
Lisa J. Lingis an American journalist, television presenter, and author. She is currently the host of This is Life with Lisa Ling on CNN. She is the former host of Our America with Lisa Ling on OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network, former co-host of ABC's The View, host of National Geographic Explorer, reporter on Channel One News, and special correspondent for The Oprah Winfrey Show and CNN. She was the host of reality television show The Job. Ling is the...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Show Host
Date of Birth30 August 1973
CitySacramento, CA
CountryUnited States of America
The best education I have ever received was through travel.
Refrain from being too judgmental. You'll often be surprised by what people have to offer.
My hope is that I can somehow raise the level of consciousness about world events.
Coming from an Asian culture, I was always taught to respect my elders, to be a better listener than a talker.
I used to be so twig skinny that I couldn't eat enough, because I was just naturally skinny. Until I went to China.
Parents are working more than ever before and unable to monitor what kids are eating at home, and schools are selling astronomical amounts of junk food in order to supplement shrinking budgets. It's a ticking time bomb, and America's children are exploding.
I am a crazy online shopper. My husband always jokes, 'Another box arrived!' Airplanes used to be my sanctuary for reading books, but now I have to peruse Gilt sales.
We live in a culture where we're bombarded with so much noise and so much insecurity.
I think that's something people need to convey because you see all these celebrity moms out there, and the perception is they can do it all, but they have sooo much help. And it's kind of an unfair image to project for many women, because it is really hard, and if you have help, you should indicate you have help.
At the end of the day, TV is supposed to be entertaining. But it's important for me that there's some take-away value from it.
I started working in television quite young, actually, and I definitely felt very insecure about what I looked like.
We're doing a partial green nursery and trying as hard as we can to do as much organic stuff for our nursery as we can.
People are starting to know more about it, but I was blown away by Almaty, Kazakhstan. It's like a future Swiss Alps. It has the potential to be an extraordinary ski resort. It is a city with beautiful mountain scapes.
I don't remember my first trip, but I do remember when my mom took me to Disney World in Orlando. It wasn't the rides but Epcot Center that most fascinated me. It made me want to see those countries that are represented there for real.